VAI Forms Alliance With Berbee Information Networks Corp., A CDW Company

VAI (Vormittag Associates, Inc.), an IBM Premier Business Partner and a leader in enterprise solutions for the distribution, manufacturing, retail and service industries, recently announced that it has partnered with Berbee Information Networks Corp., a CDW company, headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, with 10 branch offices and data centers located in Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. CDW is the provider of technology products and services to business, government and education.

The VAI-Berbee alliance allows VAI to sell its enterprise resource planning (ERP) application, S2K Enterprise, within CDW's product line and thereby increase its market share in the ERP arena. Berbee now has the ability to offer VAI's ERP applications running on the System i to its customer base.

Dan Bivona, Sales Director, VAI, said, "The VAI-Berbee alliance will bring VAI's software applications together with Berbee's sizeable client base and allow VAI entry into the CDW catalog, where VAI's specially packaged prices for the new IBM 515 server will specifically target smaller businesses. We also will pursue the traditional manufacturing, distribution, retail, warehousing and Web solutions that address the needs of clients in the larger sized enterprise space."

Michael Grone, System z and System i Product Manager, Berbee Information Networks, said, "We are pleased to welcome VAI as a new business partner. This alliance will enable us to better serve our customers."

About Berbee Information Networks Corp.
Berbee, a CDW company, is a proven partner for IT solutions, including unified communications, security, remote managed services, information worker solutions and virtualization and optimization. Berbee's data centers deliver hosted applications, co-location and managed services to clients nationwide. Berbee, a leading provider of technology for business, is among a handful of companies to achieve the highest level of partnership with its strategic partners Cisco, IBM and Microsoft. Berbee has offices in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Additional information about Berbee is available at www.berbee.com

About VAI (Vormittag Associates, Inc.)
VAI is an IBM Premier Business Partner and an award-winning software developer. Designed for the mid-range market, S2K Enterprise is used by a wide variety of mid-sized companies worldwide, with a number of clients in the manufacturing , distribution , retail , metals, food and related service industries. Advanced applications such as Warehouse Pro, EDI, CRM and e-Business provide companies the power to leverage their information technology investment. VAI is headquartered in Ronkonkoma, New York, with branch offices in Miami, Orlando, Chicago, Newport Beach and Oreville, California. For more information, please contact 800-824-7776 or visit www.vai.net

SOURCE: Vormittag Associates, Inc.)